Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of love In Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection, we find, in the poet's words, that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem. One of our foremost practitioners of the lyric, Gizzi here extends his...
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of love In Peter Gizzi's p...